On 8 October the fifth edition of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Programming Contest took place. The event is organised by Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. A record number of teams participated and tried to solve difficult programming tasks.
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Programming Contest is a leg of the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), which takes place simultaneously at 19 Nordic universities and university colleges.
For some, anonymity on the internet is a necessity. Researchers at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Princeton University have discovered a new attack against the Tor anonymity network that uses the Domain Name System (DNS).
Tor is the world’s largest anonymity network with around two million daily users, and it is used to avoid surveillance and to circumvent censorship online.
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.Â
Thirty-five PhD students presented
During summer the research within Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has received attention. At the WoWMoM 2016, the 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ was awarded on both Best PhD student paper and Best Demo.
Computer networking is one of the profile areas for the research group within Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
The fifth edition of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ programming contest is arranged at 8 October by Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. The contest is part of the Nordic championship, Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest.
The contest takes place in teams with up to 3 persons who shall solve a dozen tasks with programming in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C or Python.
Icomera develops and delivers systems for wireless Internet in public transportation such as buses and trains. Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ pursues research towards a faster and better Internet. Together they will create the network services that meet the needs of a more mobile world.
Buses and trains in a sense resemble tin cans, which severly attenuate radio signals, preventing mobile internet connection if you are inside.
The first European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) took place in middle of july, in Darmstadt's "Darmstadtium". It was a success with more participants then expected, roundabout 90 persons joined the workshop, and inbetween the presentations there were lively discussions from various perspepctives.
All in all 22 papers from 77 authors from Europe, but also from the United States, Canada, Brasil, India and Pakistan had been submitted.
On 25–27 August, twelve doctoral students embarked on an international research programme as part of the European network Privacy&Us at ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
Simone Fischer Hübner, professor in Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ university has received the ”William Winsborough Memorial Award” for her work in the field of privacy and security on the internet.
In his doctoral thesis, Johan Eklund, lecturer in computer science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½,
shows how SCTP and multihoming can be applied to real time traffic. Real time traffic is not only dependent on data being delivered correctly, but also on time.
Different types of real time traffic have different time demands. Some traffic (hard real-time traffic) is strictly dependent on being delivered on time.
Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has successfully recruited a new professor to its excellence research on data security and privacy. Melanie Volkamer works on human factors in security and privacy.
- Often it looks like security contradicts usability. That is, the more secure it is, the less usable it is.
Welcome to ¹û¶³´«Ã½! You newly started your employment here as a postdoc in computer science. What and where have you studied before you started here in May?
In the spring I earned my doctor’s degree in computer science with a specialization in distributed systems at the University in Bamberg, Germany, where I also earned my Bachelor and Master degrees. But this is not my first time in Sweden.
Two PhD students and one student from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have been to Google's 1st PhD Student Summit on Web Application Security, taking place 18-20 April 2016.
At the summit, in the Google Engineering Office in Munich, Germany, the students had the opportunity to explore complex and large-scale computing challenges.
The research project Privacy & US, coordinated by Computer Science at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has gained a new partner, the Swedish company Sentor. The aim of the project is to find new solutions to issues regarding personal data and integrity.
As more and more organisations handle personal and identifiable information, it is of great importance that citizens are protected from harmful use of this information.
